Cheetah Administration Enhancements

Below you fill find the presentation and a short summary about the latest Chat with the Labs talk held by Jerry Keesee (Director of the IBM Informix Lab) and John Miller (IBM Senior Technical Staff Member). The webcast covered the exciting new features of Cheetah in the area of administration and usability.

Cheetah - Expanding the Administration Free Zone

There has already been a lot of press publicity around IBM's next generation data server Cheetah. Now you have the chance to listen to John Miller, one of the most well-known Informix experts, talking about Expanding the Administration Free Zone. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about Cheetah.

The Presentation

The Roadmap Picture

The Highlights

IBM deciced to rely on IDS as foundation of a new, exiting product called Websphere RFID Information Center. It is IBM's major initiative into the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) space and is planned to be released this month. The outstanding replication capabilities, industry leading extensibility features and the extremly low administration costs of IDS have been the crucial factors for this groundbreaking decision.

The Informix Executive Roundtable webcast has been held today. It was an interesting event which really documented the increasing influence and visibility of Informix@IBM. For those of us who were not able to attend the webcast, here is the presentation and a summary of the exiting news and facts discussed.

An interesting webcast in the famous Chat with the Lab series will be
held on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006. The title is:

Informix Executive Roundtable

Hear the latest on Informix from the execs - Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab; Stuart Litel, President of the International Informix Users Group; and Bruce Weed, Program Director for Informix Marketing. Informix sales are strong, Cheetah development is adding some phenomenal functionality to the product set and the press is saying some very favorable things about IDS. You won't want to miss this Chat which will include a special IBM/IIUG announcement of an offering exclusively for IIUG members!